orgies that are dark, wet, and, well, self-conscious. To call the work of Pierre et Giles pandering kitsch is like calling George Bush a Republican. You speak the truth but have barely cleared your throat on the subject. Through June 28. (Robert Miller, 524 26th St. 212-366-4774.) MilTON ROGOVIN Now ninety-three, Rogovin was labelled "Buffalo's Top Red" by the House Un-Amencan Activities Committee in 1958 after he had organized the city's optometrists' union. He subsequently lost his practice, picked up a camera, and began to photo- graph local storefront churches. In the early seven- ties, he began the project for which he'll be remem- bered, several thousand portraits of the residents of Buffalo's Lower West Side, at the time a neighborhood of struggling African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Indian im- migrants. Evoking the work of Walker Evans or Shelby Lee Adams, Rogovin captured the stoic pride evident on young parents' faces and unbridled joy on the dance floor at the end of a long week spent in a steel mill. Unlike many social docu- mentarians, Rogovin returned to rephotograph his subjects in the eighties, the nineties, and two years ago. The results of this work, sets of four pictures shown with an accompanying interview, have a palpable sense of lost time and the inevitabil- ity of growing old. Opens June 17. (New-York Historical Soci- ety, 2 77th St., at Central Park 212-873-3400.) JONATHAN TORGOVNIK The lush prints shown here go behind the scene in Bollywood, India's answer to our own La- La Land. Whether showing dancers-in outfits that recall the American television pro- gram "Logan's Run"-practic- ing a routine, or street scenes in Mumbai that seem to be populated with more actors on posters than cab drivers, Torgovnik captures the riotous color and intense energy that go Into making a musical epic. A portrait of a young woman sitting with her newborn in a home with walls made from old movie posters is t.:.-agic in its reality and ex- uberant in its execution, but the set shots steal the show. In one image, the two stars Govinda and So- nali Bendre, dancing in a dry, grassy field with nearly twenty black-and-silver-clad women flapping head scarves in unison behind them, could be singing, "Saris, jewels, action!" Through Aug. 15. (KlotzlSir- mon, 511 25th St. 212-741-4764.) '"" " .U c ..... favorite daughter, Susy, who died in 1896 while he was lecturing abroad; a lime-green, illustrated first edition of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" ("At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley. . . . 'Bridgeport?' said I, pointing. 'Camelot,' said he"); a silver-print por- trait of Twain wearing his trademark white broad- cloth sUIt; and hundreds of movie posters, includ- ing an Italian poster for "11 Principe e il Povero," with Errol Flynn beaming as he arcs his duelling sword. + June 19 at 2 and June 20 at 10 A.M. and 2: A three-part sale devoted to furniture, carpets, and decorative art. + June 20 at 10:15 A.M. and 2: Books and manuscripts, including Americana. (York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-606-7000.) ') ,'.... " \ . .. 1 l, \."e ) \ ,q , ",,\-, '.-''-... Edoardo Müller conducts. (Cunningham Park, Queens. June 11.) + With Elizabeth Futral and Frank Lopardo; Müller. (Marine Park, Brooklyn. June 14. + Great Lawn, Central Park; enter at 86th St. June 16. + Pelham Bay Park, the Bronx. June 20.) + "Turandot," with Audrey Stottler (in the title role), Hei-Kyung Hong, Carl Tanner, and Andrew Gangestad; Joseph Colaneri. (Miller Field, Gateway National Recreation Area, Staten Island. June 13.) + With Andrea Gruber, Hong, Franco Farina, and Oren Gradus; Colaneri. (New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn. June 18. + Pel- ham Bay Park, the Bronx. June 21.) + (Note: All concerts begin at 8. No tickets necessary. For more information, call 212-362-6000.) PARIS NATIONAL OPERA: illES BORÉADES II To attend a performance by Les ArtS Florissants IS to expe- rience operagoing at its most refined; William Christie, the ensemble's director, makes a fetish of exactitude, but his re- creations of the great works of the French Baroque have an exquisite, concentrated energy that is unsurpassed. He is a fa- vorite at BAM, and for his lat- est production he teams up with a longtime collaborator, the director Robert Carsen, to produce Rameau's mythologi- cal tragédie en musique, a re- markably vigorous and daring work that brought the com- poser's long operatic career to a fiery close. Anna-Maria Panzarella, Paul Agnew, and Laurent Naouri are among the featured singers. (Brook- lyn Academy of Music, 30 La- fayette Ave. 718-636-4100. June 11 and June 13 at 7:30 and June 15 at 2. These are the final performances.) " ........ 11\ ',\- ORCHESmA5 AND CHORU5ES 'l '!fã', . .... NEW YORK PHilHARMONIC Lorin Maazel's latest concert, the first of two programs that close the subscription season, opens with the doomy complexity of Rachmaninoff's Third Sym- phony (the least popular, and the most interesting, of the composer's three), then gives way to Glenn Dicterow's traversal of Miklós Rózsa's Violin Con- certo, a daunting work written in 1956 for Jascha Heifetz; Maazel, an amazingly precise manipula- tor of orchestral timbres, wraps things up with the splashy sounds and vivid colors of Ravel's "Rhap- sodie Espagnole." (June 12 and June 17 at 7:30, June 13 at 2, and June 14 at 8.) + The New York première of Aaron Jay Kernis's Simple Songs" makes a fitting pendant to this final program's main offering, Mahler's "Resurrection" Sym- phony. Both works exude a powerful, ecumenically oriented spirituality that's backed up by some ter- rific orchestration; Kernis's forces are tiny com- pared to Mahler's, but he gets more punch out of a chamber orchestra than just about anyone. The soprano Jessica Jones.. the mezzo-soprano Cor- nelia Kallisch, and the New York Choral Artists assist; Maazel conducts. (June 19 at 7:30 and June 20-21 at 8.) (Avery Fisher Hall. 212-875-5656.) ORCHESTRA OF ST. lUKE.S Shulamit Ran, an Israeli-American composer of rugged modernist scores, has recently been in- ducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters; she's also the composer of a new Violin Concerto that will be premièred in this concert by the violinist for whom it wa written. Ittai Shapira. The program also features the soprano 0 Sumi Jo, who joins the group for arias by Strauss (Zerbinetta's coloratura cavalcade from "Ari- Johann Georg G 1 onradi's L'lriadne" (1691), one of the first important works of German opera, opens the season at Berkshire Opera onJune 20. Short List RONG RONG Chambers, 210 Eleventh Ave. 212-414-1169. Through June 21. MARIANA Y AM POLSKY Throckmorton, 145 E. 57th St. 212-223-1059. Through June 28. AUCTION5 AND ANTIQUES SOTHEBY.S June 12 at 10:15 A.M. and 2: AntiquIties. . June 19 at 10:15 A.M.: The Indiana educator Nick Ka- ranovich fell in love with Mark Twain long be- fore the politics of "Huckleberry Finn" became the subject of graduate dissertations and school- curriculum battles; from the nineteen-sixties on. he collected everything connected to the straight- talking humorist from Missouri. Among the high- lights are a sll1all, touching oil portrait of Twain's 52 THE NEW YORKER, JUNE 16 & 23, 2003 t,:- "!;> "":'. CHRISTlE.S June 11 at 10 A.M. and June 12 at 10 A.M. and 2: A sale of antiquities. + June 12 at 10 A.M.: "The Failure of Sir Gawain," a tapestry by Mor- ris & Co. from 1893-95, highlights the first of three sessions of twentieth-century decorative art. + June 13 at 10 A.M. and 2: The concluding sessions of the sale. which also includes a broad selection of furniture and Tiffany glass. + June 17 at LO A.M. and 2: Letters by Thomas Jeffer- son and Ponce de León (the first letter by the Spanish explorer ever to be offered at auction) highlight a sale of books and manuscripts in- cluding Americana. (20 Rockefeller Plaza, at 49th St. 212-636-2000.) PHilLIPS June 11 at 10 A.M. and 2: Works by Eileen Gray, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, and George Naka- shima highlight a sale of design from the twenti- eth and twenty-first centuries. (450 L5th St. 212-940-1200. ) CLA551CAL MU51C OPERA IIMET IN THE PARKS II The Metropolitan Opera spreads its wings through- out the parks of New York and New Haven for a round of free performances. "Lucia di Lam- mermoor," with Olga Makarin<3 in the title role and Francisco Casanova in the role of Edgardo;